Luke chapter 9 verse 27, but
I tell you of a truth. There shall be some standing
here which shall not taste of death till they see the kingdom
of God. And it came to pass about eight
days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James
and went up into a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the fashion
of his countenance was altered and his raiment was white and
blistering. And behold, there talked with
him two men, which were Moses and Elias, who appeared in glory
and spake of his decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. But Peter and they that were
with him were heavy with sleep. And when they were awake, they
saw His glory and the two men that stood with Him. And it came
to pass as they departed from Him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master,
it is good for us to be here and let us make three tabernacles,
one for Thee and one for Moses and one for Elias, not knowing
what He said. And while He thus spake, there
came a cloud and overshadowed them. They feared as they entered
into the cloud. And there came a voice out of
the cloud saying, this is my beloved son, hear him. And when the voice was passed,
Jesus was found alone. And they kept it close and told
no man in those days any of those things which they had seen. If
you will turn back with me to Luke chapter nine. A text tonight David read to
us, verses 27 through 36 of Luke chapter 9, and it's concerning
the transfiguration of Christ before his chosen apostles. The title of the message tonight
is Awakened to See His Glory. awakened to see His glory. Now what took place on this day
is something that only took place a few times that I'm aware of
in all of the New Testament. He told John it's as though he
picked up a corner of the veil that veils this world. And he
picked up just a corner and let John peer into heaven. Let him see things as they really
are. Let him see things that God has
spoken of and things that are yet to come to pass. And John
saw them and penned that book of revelation. The Transfiguration is about
how things appear and how things really are. Brother Mahan brought
a message one time titled, It Ain't Like You Thought It Was. And that's what's going on here.
It ain't like you thought it was. Jesus of Nazareth was a
man. He was a man. He appeared as
a man. They knew by the confession of
others and testimonies of others that he was born of Mary, just
like every other man's born. Tiny baby, had to be raised to
adulthood, worked in a carpenter shop, worked with Joseph in that
carpenter shop, and they knew him as they saw him in the flesh. They were around him. They knew
him. Now, these men were men of faith. They knew who he was.
In fact, just before the transfiguration, the Lord said, whom do men say
that I am? And they said, well, some say
you're John the Baptist, and others say that you're Elijah,
which was for to come. Some say Jeremiah or one of the
prophets. He said, Whom say ye that I am?
They said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. They
knew these things in their head. And they knew them in their heart,
but it was only in so much as they knew Him as a man. Their
concept, and this is, a lot of people don't know this, but their
concept of the Christ was another man like Moses. They were looking
for God to send a man, a powerful man, like Moses, or David, and
they're going to raise him up out of obscurity, and then they're
going to put him on the throne, and people are going to follow
him. And he's going to deliver them from that Roman bondage. And that's how they looked at
the Christ. So things appear to be one way,
when in fact, they're quite the opposite. I used to come home,
I'd be so disgusted with the message and how I brought it. I was just so disgusted with
it. And I'd go home and throw it in the trash can and my wife
would dig it out and put it on the internet. That would be the
message that everybody downloaded. Things aren't the way they appear,
are they? They're just not the way they appear. And that's what
this is all about. Over in Luke 24, a little bit,
several chapters forward, after His resurrection, the Lord held
back His identity, and some of the disciples were walking that
road to Emmaus, and He said, what are you so mournful about? And they didn't know who He was,
and they said, where have you been? Where have you been? And they
started to tell Him about Jesus of Nazareth. And here's what they said, we
trusted that it had been He which should have redeemed Israel. He did redeem Israel, but they
didn't realize it. You see what I'm saying? It appeared
one way, when in fact it was the very opposite. They loved him. Peter said that
he was the Christ, the Son of the living God, yet because of
fleshly circumstances, it appears as if it could not have been
possible. How can he die? How can he suffer? Beaten beyond recognition, laid
in a tomb, how can he redeem anything? They did not understand
as yet the truth of his death. And this was long after they
saw him transfigured on the mountain. And this entire chapter, if you
go back and study it, is about the preaching of the gospel.
It starts out with him calling his apostles and sending them
out to preach. And then he gives us that well-known,
it's not a parable, it's just an account of how he fed the
5,000. That's about preaching, isn't
it? I told our folks, I said, they
started out with full baskets. He blessed those few loaves and
few fishes, and each disciple had a basket. They're going to
feed who knows how many thousand, there's 5,000 men besides the
women and children. He filled those baskets, and
they went out and passed it out, and everybody ate until the full,
but they had 12 baskets full when they got done. They were
full when they started, they were full when they got done.
And I told folks the other night, I said, get your bucket, go over
here to Mississippi River and dip it in. Biggest bucket you
got, dip it in. See if you can lower the water
level. We preach his gospel and our
basket always full. If you have Christ, your basket
is as full as it needs to be. And you can preach Him, and preach
Him, and preach Him, and your basket's still full, and everybody's
fed, everybody's full. This whole chapter is about the
preaching of the gospel. And the heart and soul of gospel
preaching, and the effects of such preaching on chosen sinners,
is the revelation of Jesus Christ. The gospel, now listen to me,
because it's accompanied by the Spirit of God, is the revelation
of Christ. What it is. He'd been revealing
Himself to them. He'd been telling them who He
is. In fact, just a few verses back, He told them, He said,
now I have to go to Jerusalem, and I'm going to be killed in
Jerusalem, and they're going to put me in a tomb, and on the
third day, I'm going to raise from the dead. And they just
looked at him, they didn't know what to say. They didn't know
what to say. But the heart and soul of gospel
preaching and the effects of that preaching to chosen sinners
is the revelation of Jesus Christ. And he said to Peter, he said,
flesh and blood has not revealed this unto you, Peter, my father
which is in heaven. And then he said this upon this
rock. What rock? Is he talking about
Peter? No. No, he's talking about Christ
and the revelation of Christ. He said, I'll build my church.
Gates of hell should not prevail against it. The Transfiguration
is about the revelation of Jesus Christ. Well, what's this got
to do with the preaching of the gospel? The preaching of the gospel is
how that revelation comes. That's how it comes. How shall
you hear without a preacher? You can call on a God, but you
can't call on the God. You can't call on Him in whom
you have not believed. You can't believe in Him of whom
you have not heard. Now you're going to hear without
a preacher, and how on earth is he going to preach if God
doesn't sing? It's Christ as He truly is. That's
what this Mount of Transfiguration is. It's Christ as He really
is. It's Christ as God has set Him forth. And it's God, it's
Christ, as the prophets and the law have set Him forth. And this
Transfiguration is about the revelation of Jesus Christ. And
I have three things that I want you to see tonight in these verses.
I want you to see, first of all, things preceding this transfiguration. Things preceding this revelation,
if you will. And then I want us to look at
the revelation. What is this revelation of God?
And then I want us to look at the effect of the revelation. So let's begin here. Things preceding
the revelation. The Lord had stated clearly in
verse 27 that some of them standing there was not going to taste
of death until they had seen the kingdom of God. What is the kingdom of God? There is no kingdom without a
king. They were going to see the king. If you've seen the
king, you've seen the kingdom. Because he rules over all things.
His kingdom is invisible. You can't see it out here. The
kingdom of God, he said, cometh without observation. You're never
going to see it. It's invisible. The things of
God are invisible. You don't see them. We see them
by faith. But every now and then, the Lord
would let one of his own, he'd just pick up that veil and let
him take a peek. And that's what he did on this
day. And there's lots of questions. Why? These three. Why Peter, James, and John? Why
them three? You know the answer to it? It's
the same answer as why does he just save this one and save that
one and save that one? Because he's sovereign. Because
he will. They were all there. All 12 of
them were there. And a whole crowd of people.
Why didn't he take them all up on the mountain? No. He's going
to take three. He's going to take three. You know, I heard that preacher,
and he said this, and he said that, and I'd never even thought
about that before. How come he knows? Because the
Lord will show him. That's why. The Lord was pleased
to show these three men his transfiguration, because he would. Because he
would. And they're going to write their
testimony. All three of them are writers of scripture. And
I tell you, if you look in 2 Peter, I think it's chapter 1, And he
said, I was on the mount. I was up there. I saw the Lord
transfigured. I saw the Lord in His glory. And he said, but we have a more
sure word of prophecy. Why is that word so sure? Because
he saw it. That's why. He saw it. He saw
it. And he wrote what he saw. John,
he was up there. What did he say? He said, we've
seen Him. We've seen Him. Our hands have
handled of the Word of life. We've seen His glory. The glory
is of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
We saw Him. Our hands have handled Him. And
I didn't bother to look any further about James, but I'm sure James
mentions this fact. I'm sure of it. He was there
on that mountain. He saw Him. And these would be
His witnesses. And they were there because God
was pleased to use it. Now, we're talking about things
preceding this revelation. Here's the first thing I noticed.
Our Lord went up there to pray. Now we're talking about the Lord
of Glory. He knows all things. He knew the coin was in the fish's
mouth. He knew where to lower the net
where the fish was. He knows all things, and yet
he prayed. Everything he did proceeded with
prayer. It was proceeded with prayer.
He went up there to pray. And this is our representative,
our great federal head, and his life was lived in perfect righteousness,
and as he lived, He lived the life that we're demanded to live. Now, I'm disgusted with my prayer
life, and I know you are too. You look back at it, you ain't
never going to be satisfied with your prayer life. You can't pray. We don't even know what to pray
for, it says in the scriptures. The Holy Ghost has to make intercession
for us. We don't even know what to pray
for. We're so ignorant, and I'm disgusted with my prayer life.
But the prayer life that God sees on my behalf is praying
on that mountain. I can take comfort in his prayer.
I can take comfort in his prayer. And he went up there and prayed
on that mountain, our great representative. Paul said, my life. What life? This life. What I'm doing here
tonight, my life, every piece of it, is hid with Christ in
God. Isn't that what he said? He said our love is made perfect
over in 1 John chapter 5. It's made perfect in the day
of judgment. I can look forward to that day
of judgment and love Him and have confidence that I can go
through that judgment. Why? Because as he is, so am
I right now. That's it. That's it. And you need to see, the life
I now live in the flesh, Paul said, I live by the faith. He's
talking about his faithfulness, the faithfulness of the Son of
God who loved me and gave himself for me. My life has already been lived.
You believe that? That's what he tells you over
there in Ephesians chapter 2. You hath he quickened who were
dead in trespasses and sins. When did he do that? When he
put you in Christ before the foundation of the world. He put
you in a perfect union with the Son of God. You hath he quickened
who were dead in trespasses and sins. Wherein you walked according
to the course of this world, according
to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now
worketh in the children of disobedience. You were by nature the children
of wrath, even as others. But God, but God, oh my soul,
what did He do with us? Well, we died with Him on that
cross. We were buried with Him in that
tomb. God raised Him from the dead. Paul said, He raised us
up with Him. Now listen, we ascended with
him, and he seated us at his own right hand. Why'd he do that? That, he said, in the ages to
come, he might show the exceeding riches of his grace, exceeding
riches of his love, his mercy, his kindness, tenderness toward
us. For, he said, by grace are you
saved through faith. My life's already been lived.
In fact, I've already been justified and glorified according to Romans
chapter 8. I've been raised up, made to
sit together with Him, and the life I now live in the flesh,
I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God. And then secondly,
this also preceded this revelation, Luke 9, 32. Peter and they that
were with him were heavy with sleep. Now I want you to read this for
yourself. Everything that took place on the mountain took place
while they were asleep. Huh? He was transfigured. See how that's written? See the
order it's given in? He was transfigured. Moses and
Elijah appeared with Him in glory. But they were sleeping. They
were sleeping. Sleeping ain't the same as being
dead. Sleeping is a state of unawareness. That was the state that Peter
and James and John were in. They were unaware as yet what
he was going to do. They were sleeping. They were
sleeping. They didn't know. They were in
a state of unawareness. And I wonder if you and I are
not sleeping more than we're awake. All the glory of God is
taking place and being manifested all around us, and we don't even
see it. We don't even see it. I preached the other night. I
don't know. I got several comments on the
message, but I just didn't feel like I did a very good job. Next
day, one of the old deacons, he couldn't be there. Bedfast
at home, he called me ballin'. He said, I can't tell you what
that message meant to me. Sleepin' most of the time, ain't
we? We don't even see what God's doin'. I know it up here, but
I don't know it here, not like I ought to. This whole world's
filled with supernatural works, filled with the glory of God,
and we're too sleepy to see it. But suddenly they were awakened,
What woke them up? Huh? What woke them up? They were
sound asleep. They were heavy asleep. All this
going on. Christ was transfigured. Here
comes Moses and Elijah. And they appeared with Him in
glory. What woke them up? These two men were talking to
the Lord about His decease. Old Testament prophets, that's
what woke them up. What woke them up. I'd never
heard the glorified son of God speak, but I know this. He said it commanded and it stood
fast. He spoke and it was done. I know
that. I know they said this, never
a man spake like this man. He stood on that mountain and
he was talking to Moses and Elijah. I've never heard a... I don't
want to say a dead saint because they're not dead. But I've never
heard a saint who passed away, went into glory. I've never heard
him speak. He may speak with a loud voice.
I don't know. But I know he speaks with a pure
voice because he's in glory. But my point is this. Whatever
they were saying was sufficient to wake up chosen sinners. Woke them up. I'll tell you what
wakes me up. I was reading through the Psalms
the other night, and I come across Psalm 65, and I just used it
as a reference in another message I was preaching. Blessed is the
man that God chooses and causes to approach unto Him, and I saw
that, Started reading that, and boy, that was good. So I preached
that Sunday morning in Daniel, and then I went down a few verses,
and I saw that where he said he visits the earth and waters
it. And he, he, can't think of the word. Anyway,
he does good to the whole earth. He does good to the whole earth.
He blesses in, you might say, with the river of God. And all
of a sudden, I saw what that was talking about. I tell you,
I was awake. Woke me up. Here it is. I started
going through there, and man, it's on every page. He just keeps
talking about that river all the way from Genesis chapter
two all the way to the last chapter of Revelation. I saw a river,
he said, pure, clear as crystal, flowing out from under the throne
of God. Two men was talking to Christ,
that's what woke him up. It was sufficient to wake him
up. It was effectual to draw them out of that state of unawareness. And I see these verses sitting A precedence for every gospel
revelation represented on that mountain
was the Law and the Prophets. What did the Law and the Prophets
have to do with Christ? They talked about his decease. You know that's all they ever
talked about from the very beginning. Back yonder in the garden. The
Lord come, reconciled them, His chosen sinners. He come and reconciled
them. What did He do? Slay the Lamb. Slay the Lamb. What did He continue
to do? Slay the Lamb. Slay the Lamb. When John the Baptist saw Him,
He didn't say, Behold the Christ. He said, Behold the Lamb. Behold
the Lamb. That's all they ever talked about
was His decease. And here they are. in glory with
Christ talking about His decease. His decease is the subject of
the whole Old Testament. In Romans 3.24 it says being
justified freely by His grace through the redemption that's
in Christ Jesus whom God has set forth to be a propitiation. through faith in His blood, for
the remission of sins that are past. Is he talking about your
past sins? No. All your sins were future
when He died. He's not talking about your past
sins. He's talking about sins of Old Testament saints through
the forbearance of God. You mean He sent Him forth as
a propitiation through faith in His blood way back yonder
to Abraham? Absolutely. Absolutely. To Moses? Absolutely. You don't
think Moses knew what that lamb was? He knew what it was. To him give all the prophets
witness that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall
receive remission of sin. They've been talking about his
decease from the beginning. And then secondly, I want us
to see what they saw. They saw, first of all, Christ
and His prophets as one. As one. Christ's countenance
was changed. He was still Christ. They still recognized Him as
Jesus. But He appeared as nothing that
they'd ever seen. They saw Him in His glory. His raiment was white and glistering,
His face was white like the light, like the sun. And they saw Moses
and Elijah talking to Him in glory, it says in verse 31. Talking to Him in glory. He was Christ come down from
heaven and Christ glorified all at the same time. All at the
same time. Ain't that what we hear and see
when we hear the gospel? Ain't that the revelation God
gives us? We see God come into the flesh. Did he cease to be
God? No. No, he was still God. Mary looked at that little baby
and said, I rejoice in God my Savior. Huh? He's God. He never ceased to
be God. But what about after He died?
He's still God. He's still God. The revelation of Christ is according
to the Law and the Prophets, and they set Him forth as God
our Savior. His name shall be called Wonderful
Counselor, listen, the Mighty God. The everlasting Father. They
said, show us the Father and we'll be satisfied. He said,
you're looking at Him. You're looking at Him. You've
been this long time with me and you've not seen the Father? I
and the Father are one. He's talking to saints who had
died by earthly standards. Hundreds and hundreds of years
before. But my friend, and you can take
comfort in this, I do, saints never die. Huh? They never die. They just go
from here to there. This body's gonna give up the
ghost. This body's, they're gonna lay it down. It's going back
to the dust from which it came. But saints never die. And this
glorious revelation testifies to that. Here's two saints alive
and talking to Christ who died. One of them died, I think, 1,500
years before that, and the other one about 900. And they're both
standing there talking to Christ. Listen to this. Our Lord was
talking to, you remember they baited him, the Sadducees did,
about the resurrection. And he said, as touching the
resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken
unto you by God? He said, I am the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And he said this, God
is not the God of the dead, but the living. He that believeth on me shall
never die. Isn't that what Christ said?
Saints don't die. Moses was still Moses, and Elijah
was still Elijah. But they were in glory. They
were in glory. And somebody, boy, I've had my
share of people jumping all over me about eternal justification. If anybody ever jumps on you
about that, take them over here to them. If these two were not
eternally justified, what are they doing in glory? Because
Christ hasn't died yet. Huh? He hasn't been risen. That's our justification. That's
how it was accomplished. But they were already justified
in the purpose of God. And it was counted as done. And
that's what that scripture over there in Romans chapter 3, 24
that I was quoting to you a while ago. That's what that's talking
about. By faith, they saw the coming
Redeemer who would die. And that death was counted just
as though it had already happened by God. And they were justified
and taken up into glory. God sent down a chariot of fire
and took Elijah into glory. Moses he buried on the mountain.
Nobody saw what God did with him. And here he is. Here he is. It says they were astonished
at his doctrine. And these men were talking about
his decease. Now, if you have a concordance
when you go home, just look up the word decease. The first explanation
there is exodus. They were talking to him about
his exodus, which he should accomplish. There are no mites in that, which
he should accomplish. Before God would allow Moses
to lead Israel out of Egypt, the lamb must be slain. Had to
be slain. The blood had to be struck on
the lintel and on the doorpost. The door had to be covered with
the blood of Christ. That's the only door there is.
Christ is the door. And his flesh had to be eaten.
Or no exodus. No exodus. In this transfiguration, here's
the fourth thing. They saw all three as one. All three. Well, preacher, where
are you getting that from? Because Peter, having seen all
three, wanted to build three tabernacles. If he saw one above the other,
he'd have just built one tabernacle. He saw all three as one. You
know how God sees you, Larry? He sees you in Christ. That's
hard to get hold of, ain't it? He sees you in Christ. He sees
his son. He'll tell you when you get to
glory, he'll say to you, well done by good and faithful servant. You can't look yourself in the
mirror and say that. God won't say that to you. Because
he sees you in Christ. Because that's where he put us.
That's where he put us. We want to jump all over Peter. Peter didn't know. It tells you
right here. He didn't know what he was saying. He didn't know
what he was saying. He said that out of ignorance.
He's going to build three tabernacles. But what he saw was one. He saw them glorify. Glorify. Oh, I tell you, if we could just
get a hold of our union with Christ, we're one with Him. And
then another thing about this revelation of Christ is that
nothing was talked about except His death. Huh? People want to talk about everything
on the sun, don't they? These are glorified saints. There's
nothing hidden from them anymore. Nothing hidden. They know. They
see Him as He is. There's no more blindness and
ignorance about them. They know. They know who this
is. But what do they talk about?
They start talking about creation and start talking about where
frogs come from and no, no, they talk about his death. They talked
about him, him. Christ and him crucified is our
message to all who will listen. Paul said, when I come to you,
Corinthians, I came not with excellency of speech or wisdom
declaring unto you these things, but he said, I determined not
to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. All right, what else you see
in these verses? Well, I see the effects of this vision. Peter said, let's build three
tabernacles. We're going to build one for you, Lord.
And we're going to build one for Moses. And we're going to
build one for Elijah. And boy, things got quiet on
the mountain. They that were talking quit talking.
And a cloud appeared. You read all three accounts of
this. A cloud appeared. And the cloud overshadowed them.
And they were quaking in their boots when it did. And when the cloud overshadowed
them, what is that? That's the presence of God. When
the presence of God just covered them like a cloud, they were
trembling. And out of that cloud, they heard
a voice, and it said, this is my beloved son. Hear him. And then the cloud moved away.
And when the cloud moved away, there's nobody else there, just
Jesus. Him alone. Isn't that what happens when
you get the revelation of God? I mean, I love the old prophets. And when I'm reading them, I'll
say Zachariah said, or Isaiah said, or Moses said, or even,
I know God said it through them, but like our Lord said, he that hears
you hears me. It's God speaking. And I tell
you, I've got all the respect in the world for those prophets
and what they did. I wonder if the circumstance,
but for the grace of God, I wouldn't. But do the things that they did,
my soul. Amazing. Moses, outcast. He was raised in Pharaoh's house.
He knew something about the fierceness of Pharaoh. He walked right up
to the throne. He said, the Lord said, let my
people go. Could you do that? Not apart from the grace of God
you won't. They saw nothing but Jesus alone. This is my beloved Son, hear
Him. Does that mean we're not to listen
to any others when they preach the gospel? Does that mean we
shouldn't pay any attention to the prophets? No sir. He said
to the 120 that he sent out to preach, he said, he that heareth
you, heareth me. God speaks through the preaching
of the gospel. And it's not wrong to read or
believe the Word of God so long as we see and hear Christ alone. Not wrong to hear the gospel
preached as long as we hear Christ alone as the subject. When all the means of God have
been rightly received, the result is going to be this, Christ alone.
We're going to see Him. We're going to see Him. Turn
with me to Colossians chapter two, and I'll try to wind this
up. A man, I've known him, I guess,
for 40 some years. Known him from the 70s. And he
was attending the Grace Church, and I'm not gonna tell you what
church. And I was talking to him the
other day, and he said, I don't go there anymore. And I said,
what's the problem? He said, well, the pastor preaches
the gospel. And don't get me wrong, he said
the gospel is very important. But we need a little law. Can a man have a little law? Paul said, if you be so much
as circumcised, you're in debt to keep the whole law. You can't
have a little law. We need a little law. Oh, my
soul. Well, I'll tell you what God
did. He took Moses out of the picture. Well, what about all them ceremonies?
What about all we need to keep those ceremonies? We need to,
huh? Elijah, you go over here. Now
what do you say? Christ alone. Christ alone. God took Moses out of the picture.
Well, how in the world are we gonna live our lives? Look here
in Colossians 2, verse six. As ye have therefore received
Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him. How do you receive
him? As your righteousness, as your life, as your justifier, as your savior,
as your Lord. Now walk that way. Ain't that
what he's saying? As you have received Christ Jesus
the Lord, so walk ye in Him, rooted and built up in Him, established
in the faith as you've been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. And beware, beware lest any man
spoil you through philosophy. What's philosophy going to do?
It's going to try to lead you away from Christ or tell you
you need this along with Christ. They're going to spoil you through
philosophy and vain deceit. They're going to lie to you. And it's going to be after the
tradition of men. Men love this. It's going to
be after the rudiments, the basic principles of the world. and not after Christ. For in
Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and ye
are complete in Him. Huh? Ye are complete in Him. The Law and the Prophets are
means to an end. Without the Law and the Prophets
we wouldn't know who Christ is. Brother Mahan used to say the
whole Old Testament tells us somebody's coming. Somebody's
coming. Somebody's coming. The Gospels
tell us somebody came. And all the epistles, all the
epistles, tells us somebody's coming back. Somebody's coming
back. Christ accomplished His exodus. And if Christ did not accomplish
his exodus, then there'd be no saints in glory. Our Lord had
been teaching them something about the preaching of the gospel.
So how does this transfiguration figure into the gospel? Well,
Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 15, 14, if Christ be not risen,
then our preaching is vain. If he didn't die, be buried,
And risen from the dead, we got nothing to preach. Got nothing
to preach. And he said, your faith is vain.
And you're yet in your sins. And what about those falling
asleep? They're all perished. They're all gone. But he said,
now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits
of them that slept. He accomplished his exodus. And I'll tell you one thing.
When Moses left Egypt with Israel, they lined up like an army. I
forget exactly what the order of it was, but they lined up
in order like an army, and they marched out of Egypt, and the
Egyptians gave them everything they had willingly. Just give
it to them. Get out of here. We don't want
no more plagues. And when they went out, God forbid
even a dog to bark at them when they went out. The dog sat there
and wagged her tail when they went by. He accomplished his exodus, and
his exodus is our exodus. That's what he's showing these
men on the Mount of Transfiguration. He's setting the precedence for
all gospel revelation year on out. You're gonna say he's the
subject of this book. And his death is the testimony
of this book. May God give us everyone an understanding
of that. And might it have the same effect
on us as it had on him. All we see is Christ. All right,
thank you.